Django Elasticbeanstalk: Cannot access static files when Debug = False

Question

My static files are served with no issue when Debug = True. I have read the documentation on https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/howto/static-files/deployment/ but still cannot get it to work when Debug = False. These are my settings (works fine when Debug = True):

BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))

STATIC_URL = 'myapp/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(BASE_DIR),"myapp","static","static-only")
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
os.path.join(os.path.dirname(BASE_DIR),"myapp","static"),                 
)

I have edited the config file to be:

container_commands:
   collectstatic:
      command: "myapp/manage.py collectstatic --noinput"

option_settings:
  "aws:elasticbeanstalk:application:environment":
     DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE: "myapp.settings"
     PYTHONPATH: "/opt/python/current/app/myapp:$PYTHONPATH"
  "aws:elasticbeanstalk:container:python":
     WSGIPath: "myapp/myapp/wsgi.py"
  "aws:elasticbeanstalk:container:python:staticfiles":
    "/static/": "myapp/static/"

I have been banging my head on this for some time so any help would be much appreciated!

Did you run the collectstatic command, i.e. `python manage.py collectstatic` ? — Mark Chackerian, Oct 16 '15 at 20:17
Check out http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5836674/why-does-debug-false-setting-make-my-django-static-files-access-fail?rq=1 — Mark Chackerian, Oct 16 '15 at 20:20

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 06 '21 at 08:51

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I don't have a direct answer to your question, other than to ask you why are you trying to do it this way. The best practice is to move your static files to S3 or ideally, CloudFront (or another non-AWS solution).

Use django-storages-redux (https://github.com/jschneier/django-storages) to use static files from S3 for production. Google 'django s3 static' and you will find several blogs explaining the process. The documentation is here.

edited Nov 06 '21 at 08:51

halfer

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answered Oct 15 '15 at 05:38

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This blog looks as a good one: https://www.caktusgroup.com/blog/2014/11/10/Using-Amazon-S3-to-store-your-Django-sites-static-and-media-files/ – dkarchmer Oct 15 '15 at 05:45

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 16 '15 at 18:48

collectstatic command would have collected all your static file to STATIC_ROOT which you had set as "/PATH/TO/myapp/static/static-only.

So I suspect that you pointed your static files to the wrong directory in the config file.

Try "/static/": "myapp/static/static-only"

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